The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle, Sat 9 Apr 1870 1
GOULBURN POLICE COURT.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6.
BEFORE Mr Levy.
William Bush was brought up under suspicion of being of unsound mind.
Constable Waters deposed: I arrested defendant yesterday evening at Mandelson’s Hotel; he told me there was a fairy at the back of his ear that told min to do everything; that devils and spirits came into his bedroom at Bungonia and would have torn him to pieces only he prayed, and other rambling statements; he is apparently suffering from palsy; I believe he is of unsound mind.
Defendant was sent to the gaol hospital for fourteen days in default of finding sureties to be of good behaviour.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 7.
Before the police-magistrate.
William Butler alias McKeaney, a young man apparently about two-and-twenty, was charged with attempting to commit an unnatural offence at Goulburn, upon Morris [aka Maurice] Wright of New Country Flat. After hearing the evidence, which is unfit for publication, defendant was committed to take his trial.
1 The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle, Sat 9 Apr 1870, p. 4. Emphasis added.